5/28/2023 0 Comments Chosen by villains by eva chaseSeven years had passed before Fraser returned.and informed her he had never stopped loving her, that his life was not his own.and that he couldn't tell her what had happened for him to marry someone else, other than that he had been forced to stay away from Ella. A few weeks later, she learned that he had married another woman and, soon after that, had a son with her. Fraser had left Scotland for America to pursue a golfing career, and the two of them managed to hold on to a long-distance relationship.that is, until Ella's 21st birthday when Fraser broke up with her over the phone. Ella had been in love with him from the age of thirteen (he had been fifteen). Inevitable Ella, Book 2 of the Triple Trouble series, was about Ella Wallace, one of the Wallace Triplets, and Fraser Farmer, a pro-golfer.Įlla and Fraser had a long history, dating back to high school.
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5/27/2023 0 Comments Peter pan kensington gardens bookThis play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously.īarrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. In London he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. During the next 10 years Barrie continued writing novels, but gradually his interest turned toward the theatre. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. His early works, Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889), contain fictional sketches of Scottish life and are commonly seen as representative of the Kailyard school. He took up journalism, worked for a Nottingham newspaper, and contributed to various London journals before moving to London in 1885. The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. It’s 2003 and 19-year-old Juliet Palante is a queer Latinx babe living in the Bronx who’s got a newfound power in her womanhood and can call herself a feminist. It felt like my body was both overexposed and an unsolved mystery. Reading helped me gather myself, reminded me that I had a right to be mad. Reason number five hundred and fifty-one Raging Flower was so necessary. Neighborhood dudes sure knew how to slime and shame a girl in one swift move. Anytime I ignored them I was both a bitch and all of a sudden too ugly or too fat to get it anyway. All they did was talk smack about how good they laid down the pipe. They fiended for attention, were always aggressive, and made me wish I could put them down. They bragged about their conquests over “some bitches from last night.” When boys talked it sounded like feral dogs barking. Young Adult, LGBTQ+, Contemporary Realism Published by Penguin Random House LLC, Penguin Canada, September 2019ģ04 Pages, hard cover, $23.99 CAD, 978-7-8 5/27/2023 0 Comments Interpreter of maldivesThe new government under President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih proclaimed an “India First” policy, which is now being tested as he seeks to reconcile India’s growing presence against a tradition in Maldives of fierce independence. The former president Abdulla Yameen, who was seen by many as dangerously close to China, was ousted in an electoral landslide in 2018. Maldives has come to international attention in recent years as part of growing rivalry between India and China. For centuries big powers have sought to build influence there and deny its use to rivals. Despite a population of only 500,000, its location, astride the main sea lanes of the Indian Ocean, gives it considerable strategic significance. Maldives is a small island state located right in the centre of the Indian Ocean. It’s not something that India has been good at elsewhere in the neighbourhood. This has highlighted the difficulties that both countries face in building a stable strategic partnership while also addressing popular sensitivities. Recent protests in Maldives against India’s influence in the country calling for “ Indian military out” has led the Maldives government to respond by reiterating its “ India First” policy. Before giving an example of the text read by Adriel Brandt, if there’s any doubt in your mind about the difference, OR pronunciation, of daemon vs. And it is daemon, in its Platonic sense of a being intermediary between gods and men – not demon, with its Judeo-Christian import of an unclean, evil, or malignant spirit – that we must keep in mind. For a daemon and a demon are not one and the same thing. The individual might have his own daemon, good or evil. A deity regarded as a supernatural power rather than as a person hence some being never definitively personified, but recognized as an exerting power, especially over the lives and fortunes of men a tutelary deity or spirit. From Webster’s New International Unabridged Dictionary 2nd Edition published in 1949: Daemon 1. Bear with this lengthy explanation BEFORE you buy this audiobook. This is extremely dangerous for new or nescient students of this work as there’s dimensionally different realities between a daemon and a demon. The word is DAEMON, the correct pronunciation is with a hard ‘A’ as in ‘day’ NOT with a hard ‘E’ as in ‘demon’ which the reader repeatedly states. WARNING: Mispronunciation Is Seriously Misleading.ĭO NOT BUY THIS if you are only listening and not following along with a text or you will come away with a malignant understanding of the work because of the mispronunciation of a single word often used and repeatedly, consistently, sans one remarkable time, mispronounced. I started as lead designer on VR-1 Crossroads, a text-based MUD centered on warring conspiracies – The X-Files meets Illuminati, with a world of dreams thrown in for good measure. Magnet began a slow implosion in 1996, and along with a number of other people I went to work for a Colorado company called VR1. However, the only work that ever saw the light of day was some level design on the abstract arcade game Icebreaker. I worked on a number of projects during my stay at Magnet for a time I was lead designer on a game called BLUESTAR, a position that was held at other times by such roleplaying luminaries as Ken Rolston and Zeb Cook. Sadly, Magnet never managed to hit the big time as a game developer. My first job was with Magnet Interactive Studios, in Washington DC. If you have any questions, let me know!įrom 1994-2002, I fell into the computer games industry. Here is a list of the highlights of my life as a game designer. Over the last few decades I have managed to turn gaming from a hobby into a career. I've been interested in games since I first fell under the sinister influence of the Dungeons & Dragons boxed set, back in sixth grade. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Mismatch kat holmesAs I moved through the book, I was initially inspired and energized by the stories I read-like one of a gamer/UX designer in a wheelchair who uses his voice to engage the world, who was struggling to use the controllers designed for able-bodied people and who triumphed over these challenges through smart design. Mismatch pleasantly meanders around all types of design-from architecture to product design- using anecdotes and interviews alongside research to support Holmes’ perspective. She follows a “Who, What, Why, When, How” model that serves her thesis well. Holmes opens the book focusing on in-group/out-group mentalities, arguing that inclusivity is possible through inclusive design processes. Mismatch is a short look at ways that people feel excluded through design. As I read Kat Holmes’ Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design, however, I realized that too often designers rely on generalizations across many dimensions of design-thinking, ultimately resulting in sterilized solutions befitting of both everyone and no one. The idea of universal design is powerful and (hopefully) prevalent in everything designers do. 5/26/2023 0 Comments Britain begins by barry cunliffeThe book was packed with stories which had never before been heard. The cleric was Geoffrey of Monmouth and his book, Historia Regnum Britanniae (translated as History of the Kings of Britain). “Around 1135 AD a cleric living in Oxford published a complete history of the British ruling dynasty from Brutus, the grandson of Aeneas, to Cadwallader, the last historically attested British king who abandoned Britain to the Saxons in the seventh century. The third story also revolves around these ancient Greek myths. One of them was Britto and hence called Britain. The second tradition says it all began with Alanus was the first man to enter Europe and had twelve sons and each of them founded one European state. He came to Britain, after spending time in Gaul and the country was named after him. Britto, the grandson of Aeneas, accidentally killed his father and was driven away from Italy. The first, the Roman tradition begins with Aeneas a Trojan hero and said to be founder of ancient Rome fleeing from Troy. Barry Cunliffe’s Britain Begins is one such quest to unravel the origins of that country.Īccording to Cunliffe there are three distinct traditions associated with the origins of Britain. Scholars world over have spent enormous time working backward to reach the beginning. THE origin of anything is almost always shrouded in mystery. Britain Begins, Barry Cunliffe, Oxford University Press, Pp 553(HB), £30 Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of revolution: the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power, the smoke of riots has replaced the smog of industry, and all must submit to the wisdom of crowds.With nothing left to lose, Citizen Brock is determined to become a new hero for the new age, while Citizeness Savine must turn her talents from profit to survival before she can claw her way to redemption. Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. But grievances must be nursed, power seized and allies gathered first, while Rikke must master the power of the Long Eye. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in her way.For heroes like Leo dan Brock and Stour Nightfall, only happy with swords drawn, peace is an ordeal to end as soon as possible. Savine dan Glokta, once Adua's most powerful investor, finds her judgement, fortune and reputation in tatters. One might glimpse the future, through the curse of the Long Eye, but changing it is another matter altogether. On the battlefields of the North, the next generation of would-be heroes rushes to make the same bloody mistakes as the last.While the age of the machine dawns, the age of magic refuses to die. The New York Times bestselling finale to the Age of Madness trilogy that began with A Little Hatred finds the world in. 5/26/2023 0 Comments Absolute swamp thing vol 1One thing is to remaster something aiming to preserve the original as the main priority, and another different is changing the content trying to "improve" it. You can like this more or less, but this is not the original Swamp Thing, is like if they get some writer to do "adjustments" or improvements on some parts of the text to present it to younger audiences well it can be liked more or less by new readers, but it is NOT the same work. But that is not the case here, where Tatjana Woods is pushed into the oblivion. There have been other cases in the past when the recolouring was done, or at least approved, by the original artist like Akira. I had been waiting for a decent edition of this run to finally find myself with this recolored sh*t. I’d like an eventual omnibus to restore her work. As far as I’m concerned she is every bit as important to the Swamp Thing creator teams as Wein, Wrightson, Moore, Bissette, Totleben, Veitch and all the rest. Feb 21, 2020I also like the new colours although it is a shame to disregard Tatjana Woods’ work. |
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